Now let’s take out our cliché handbook as we watch Michelle go from rags to riches to incarceration. Michelle eventually runs afoul of a former co-worker and lover Renault (Peter Dinklage), who discovers her inside trading scheme and gets her busted. Is McCarthy making a funny fashion statement or does she have a huge hickey she wants hidden? Perhaps it’s cosmetic. You may also wonder why she wears turtlenecks throughout the film. One particularly lame bit has Michelle’s mouth opened up wide by a contraption so that her put-upon assistant Claire (Bell) can whiten her teeth. Unfortunately, none of these power play scenes is remotely funny. While she works hard, she exhibits no scruples as she climbs the corporate ladder by gleefully stepping over others. Hardened by her childhood rejections, Michelle has transformed herself into the 47th wealthiest woman in America. She’s a brash, foul-mouthed bully who makes Donald Trump look like Bambi.

And if they were, show that bad behavior since that could have been funny, too, while also providing a little sympathy for Michelle.Īs an adult, Michelle (McCarthy) merits no sympathy, however. Wouldn’t it have been funnier to show her misbehaving? Otherwise, the parents come off as colossal jerks. The movie opens with scenes of a young Michelle Darnell repeatedly returned to a Chicago orphanage apparently because she was such a handful.

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